nancyw retweeted
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
President Trump to air traffic controllers, who faced staffing shortages before the government shutdown and have been forced to work throughout it without pay:
"...get back to work, NOW!!! Anyone who doesn’t will be substantially 'docked'...For those that did nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU."
(Flight delays have increased in recent days because more air traffic controllers were calling out sick due to not being paid during the 40+ day shutdown. The industry was already facing six-day work weeks before the shutdown due to staffing shortages and the amount of time it takes to train new controllers.)
nancyw retweeted
Another win!
NEWS -- SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON plans to swear in Rep.-elect ADELITA GRIJALVA before the government funding vote.
This will not change the vote count on the funding bill. But it will put the EPSTEIN discharge petition over the 218-signature threshold.
@PunchbowlNews text subscribers got it first - duh
nancyw retweeted
When prices rise because *demand* is hot, wages usually follow. When prices rise because tariffs raise costs -- a *supply* shock -- there’s no reason paychecks catch up. That’s why tariff inflation hurts a whole heckuva lot more. It's a permanent reduction in living standards.
nancyw retweeted
To boo @realDonaldTrump is to show respect for office he holds and the Constitution he continually trashes.
I don’t care if they don’t like Trump, but have some damn respect for the President of the United States and our men and women in uniform. This is sick.
I wouldn’t have booed if it was President Obama swearing in our military (even though I strongly disliked Obama). What is wrong with our fellow Americans? 😡
nancyw retweeted
Who wants to be a "friend" or ally of such a country?
Trump & his officials are swiftly alienating the whole world with their unjustified insults.
They should learn elementary economics, common sense & some civility.
Lutnick would benefit from not showing himself in public.
Trump Commerce Secretary attacks Canada: "They have basically been feeding off of us for decades upon decades upon decades. They have their socialist regime and it's basically feeding off of America ... why do we do our films in Canada?” @atrupar
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It is unacceptable for masked ICE agents to throw tear gas on the streets of American cities.
@RepScottPeters and I are introducing the Stop Excessive Force in Immigration Act to ban ICE’s use of crowd control munitions, mandate body cameras, and protect our communities.
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Never forget that Rick Scott did the largest Medicare fraud in the history of our nation. You don’t want him anywhere near healthcare policy.
Totally agree, @POTUS! I’m writing the bill right now.
We must stop taxpayer money from going to insurance companies and instead give it directly to Americans in HSA-style accounts and let them buy the health care they want. This will increase competition & drive down costs.
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Democrats reveal whistleblower details of Ghislaine Maxwell prison ‘luxuries’ msnbc.com/msnbc/news/democra… via @MSNBC
nancyw retweeted
We’ve been talking about closing the sky since day one of this war. We understand that it’s our vulnerability. And we realize that Putin had a huge number of missiles, while we had very few air‑defense systems and only a small remaining stock of Soviet‑era missiles. These systems were no shield at all. Nevertheless, we built the air‑defense we could, and we continue to develop it.
We have different systems, we’ve worked out many things, and we gave important feedback to our partners about how their systems perform, including to the United Kingdom and France, which also provided their air‑defense systems. And they highly value the experience we passed on to them. During this war, all their systems became ten levels higher in quality. Because this is a modern war against modern missiles – against Korean missiles, Iranian drones, Russian missiles, and various weapons from different countries. And we were the ones who tuned their systems, at great cost.
When we talk about closing the sky today – it’s multi‑layered. Modern aviation must be part of it, and interceptor drones. We already have several companies producing them, and we are manufacturing them ourselves. The latest ones we launched with the UK – OCTOPUS – one of the drones that we will produce jointly. And that is the case with the Sky Shield, so we really need it.
Today, we want to order 25 Patriot systems from the United States. For us, that’s a clear budget, and we understand the financial scope; however, certain elements are missing from the agreement. European colleagues can help us here – they can lend us their systems now and then take back ours once they arrive from the manufacturers. These systems are produced over several years, and we would not want to wait.
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Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said she stepped away from talks on ending shutdown because it became clear it wouldn’t deal with health care crisis.
Slotkin said deal “has got to do something concrete on health care and it’s hard to see how that happens.”
nancyw retweeted
French fishermen are sending fishing nets to Ukraine to protect against Russian drones.
Fishermen from the coast of Brittany have created a charitable organization, Kernic Solidarités, to aid Ukraine. They have already sent two shipments of horsehair fishing nets, totaling 280 km in length, according to The Guardian.
These fishing nets serve as anti-drone protection near the front lines.
“They are proud that their used nets will help save lives,” said Jean-Jacques Tangi, former president of the Finistère Fisheries Committee.
Fishermen from Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, and Finland have also been sending nets for some time.
Thank you for supporting Ukraine!
nancyw retweeted
One of two things is true:
1. Chuck Schumer genuinely felt this is a bad deal, so he voted against it, but he couldn't keep Senate Dems in line because he's a lackluster leader.
OR
2. Chuck Schumer orchestrated the shutdown deal w/ retiring and out-of-cycle Dems because he's a bad strategist and got rattled.
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🚨 JUST IN: The U.S. has quietly removed panels honoring Black WWII soldiers from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten.
Officials claim it’s part of a “rotating display.” Locals call it what it is, erasure.
nancyw retweeted
The billionaire owner of the Washington Commanders might name his new stadium after a man who just got mercilessly booed by his entire fan base because they despise him. Seems like a brilliant branding strategy.
